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The New York-based HRW says its report is based on firsthand accounts of women who have been kicked, beaten, stabbed, or sexually abused by their husbands. The victims say authorities encouraged them to reconcile with their attackers instead of offering them legal protection.

The report also describes how women and girls are being kidnapped -- sometimes by men they do not know -- for forced marriages.

HRW calls on Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev's government to make ending violence women a priority and a reality.

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